Education: Standing P.A.T.

"I don't care," said eleven-year-old Ann Marie Dark. "My parents do."
Ann was one of 148 students transferred, for reasons of racial
balance, from a New York City junior high that has been 95% white to a
school whose pupils have been 71% Negro and Puerto Rican. Her parents
are members of P.A.T. (Parents and Taxpayers), a group of New York City
citizens, almost all of them white, who are determined to block the
Board of Education's experimental program for breaking down de facto
segregation. Getting the school year off to an angry start, they
stunned the nation's largest system with...